176 Rejjorta and Proceedings — 



Geological Society of London. 



I. — Annual General Meeting. — February 15th, 1895. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretaries read the Reports of the Council and of the Library 

 and Museum Committee for the year 1894. In the former the 

 Council congratulated the Fellows on the satisfactory condition of 

 the Society's finances, and pointed out that the decrease in the 

 number of Fellows, to which attention had been drawn in the two 

 previous annual reports, has been much less apparent during the 

 past year. 



The number of Fellows elected in the course of 1894 was 48; 

 of these 36 qualified before the end of the year, making, with 

 7 previously elected Fellows, a total accession of 43 during the 

 twelvemonth. In the same period the losses by death, resignation, 

 and removal amounted to 54, the actual decrease in the number of 

 Contributing Fellows being 5. The result of the work of checking 

 the exact number of Fellows, both by the List and on the books, 

 showed tliat at the end of 1894 the total number of Fellows, 

 Foreign Members, and Foreign Correspondents, was 1321, 305 

 being Compounders, 862 Contributing FeUows, 75 non-Contributing 

 Fellows, 40 Foreign Members, and 39 Foreign Correspondents. 



The Balance-sheet for the year 1894 showed Receipts to the 

 amount of £2643 5s. \0d., and an Expenditure of £2656 2s. 8(^., 

 being an excess of Expenditure over actual Income of £12 16s. \0d. 

 The Balance in favour of the Society on December 31st, 1894, 

 amounted to £358 9s. Id. 



The Council then refer to the raising of the Composition Fee as 

 a result of the deliberations of the Finance Committee, and express 

 their regret at the resignation of the Treasurer, the Rev. Thomas 

 Wiltshire, after thirteen years' tenure of office. 



The completion of Vol. 50 of the Quarterly Journal was announced, 

 and the Fellows were informed that the List of Additions to the 

 Library would in future be issued as a separate publication. The 

 Index to the first fifty volumes of the Journal had proved a more 

 arduous task than was at first anticipated, and there was no prospect 

 of its being issued to the Fellows during the current year, although 

 every effort would be made to expedite the work. 



In conclusion, the Awards of the various Medals and proceeds of 

 Donation Funds in the gift of the Society were announced. 



The Report of the Library and Museum Committee enumerated 

 the additions made during the past year to the Society's Library, 

 announced the completion of several sets of serials, formerly im- 

 perfect, and referred more especially to the large accession of books 

 and pamphlets from the libraries of Sir John Evans, the Rev. J. F. 

 Blake, and the late Mr. W. Topley. The Report further recorded 

 the completion of the work of registering the type and other 

 important specimens of the British Collection in the Society's 



